Can i assign value to a variable and used it in differ

Hi all
Thanks to all of your immediate response

I have the following template 

<xsl:template name="process-style">	
	<xsl:if test="normalize-space($name)='border' and self::table">
		<xsl:variable name="bordervalue" select='"$value"'/>
	</xsl:if>		
</xsl:template>

Actually i am used this template for processing inline style.(above is a
part of that).
name variable contains the attribute name present in style attribute.My aim
is to
check whether the name is border,then i store it value to some variable.I
want to use 
this variable in  some other templates.

<xsl:template name="tablechildborder">
	<xsl:if test="number($bordervalue) &gt; 0 ">			
		<xsl:attribute name="border-style">solid</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:attribute name="border-separation">1pt</xsl:attribute>

		<xsl:attribute name="border-left-width">thin</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:attribute
name="border-right-width">thin</xsl:attribute>
		<xsl:attribute name="border-width">thin</xsl:attribute>
	</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="tableborder">
	<xsl:when test="number($bordervalue) &gt; 0 ">
		<xsl:attribute name="border">
			<xsl:call-template name="createborder">
				<xsl:with-param name="tborder"
select="$bordervalue"/>
			</xsl:call-template>
		</xsl:attribute>
	</xsl:when>
</xsl:template>

I tried this one.But i could not get the $bordervalue inside tableborder and
tablechildborder template.First time it shown some error.Then i make the
variable bordervalue
as global.

<xsl:stylesheet 
  version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
  xmlns:fox="http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions">

<!-- ==============================================
	Global variable declaration
==================================================-->
<xsl:variable name="bordervalue"/>

// All my template present here

</xsl:stylesheet>


How can i solve this problem?Can i assign a value to variable and use it in
other template.
Please help me.


Thanks in advance

George



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